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So I've read Ceramite being described as Grey, White, Bone coloured, and Silver. I had an imperial Space Marine 30th Ann. model that I've been meaning to paint up, and I wanted to do something a little bit different than the regular paint scheme for my Ultramarines. I imagine the armour being a relic from the very first days of the Great Crusades, before the rediscovery of the Primarchs, and I imagine the Marine Forces being a lot more generic then, and thought, "why don't I paint the armour bare Ceramite"? So over the years I've read Ceramite being described as grey, white, bone coloured, and silver. Rather than choose one, I decided to try all of the above! After a failed initial attempt, I have developed a way of painting Ceramite that I'm very pleased with and wanted to share with you all.

I began by priming with grey Surface Primer, and went straight on top of that with Gloss Nuln Oil. I did a second application in some of the more recessed areas to get them really dark. I then Dry brushed with a grey nearly identical to the primer (Citadel Celestra Grey I believe), and built up to white. The result I was going for at this stage was sort of like a zenithal-highlighted preshade, so the upward facing surfaces were the only ones to get much white. That said, the rest of the process was going to be glazing, so I did a fair bit of layering and cutting back in to clean it up and smooth the transitions before moving on. I then went in and mixed some bone coloured paint from P3 (Jack Bone and Menoth White Base) with quite a bit of Lahmian Medium (might have been 10:1 or more!), and brushed a glaze of that on, being carefull to clean and dry the brush and then pull the glaze out of the crevasses as I went, so as not to lose my black wash. I then followed that with a glaze of Vallejo Metal Medium (with Lahmian Medium again at maybe 6:1 this time), once again being careful to pull it out of the cracks. I then finished it off with a lighter black wash (Vallejo Game Colour. The wash, not the ink) just carefully run back only into the crevasses where needed to reestablish the shading.

The end result really looks like a hybrid of metal and ceramic to me. The metal medium glaze, if done subtly, gives a really neat irridescent/ opalescent effect that could also be useful on stones or for a fancy seashell or mother of pearl type effect.

I tried to get a pic to post, but the camera on my phone just won't capture it correctly (not enough resolution to catch the metallic glaze I guess), which is odd because the effect is really striking even from 4 feet away. When my point and shoot has recharged batteries tomorrow, I will try to get a good shot with that.

These don't really capture the sheen or the hue properly, but it'll give an idea. Looks a little dull here, but to the naked eye, it's quite striking. The light is a bit gak here, but any more light and the metallic glaze just gets completely washed out. These look better if you click on them for correct resolution.